Hello out there!

Hello!  I'm back, and feel so rested and ready to get back to my desk!

Hopefully, your holidays were as full of blessings as ours were!  

I promised to tell you all about it when I got back, 

so here goes...

Wow...what an amazing Christmas week we had.  

Our DD and her fiance (and grandoggie Rosie), our DS and grandoggie Wimpy, were all home for a few days.  Our family celebration began in St. Louis. We went to a wonderful Scottish restaurant, and had traditional Scottish appetizers, food, and drink. Yum!  Wonderful food, indeed, and so much fun to try something we'd never had! Next, DD and her fiance had purchased tickets for us all to go to the Fabulous Fox Theater to see a live production of Beauty and the Beast.  Oh my goodness!  It was beautiful.  We hated to see it end.  DS had reserved amazing rooms for us at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, overlooking the Arch, downtown St. Louis, and the River.  We visited in one of the rooms that had a full living room and kitchen, and finally crashed for the night.  The next morning, we headed back down the highway for a couple of blissful, relaxing days with our loved ones.  Sadly, the holidays came to an end, and after a trip back to St. Louis to the airport yesterday, everyone is back home, either in Colorado, or California.  It is certainly quiet here!

I have been crafting today, but can't show you what I've been doing, as it's for some new release 

postings that will come in a few days!

However, I do have another publication reject, and I'd love to share with you.  

I had seen this drawer box tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers, and thought that it would be fun to add an easel card to the top of it.  Inside the drawer, is a full set of matching A-2 size note cards.  The background was created by laying a large piece of lace over the ivory cardstock, and spritzing with red Glimmer Mist.  The image was heat embossed, and the color was painted on using the Glimmer Mist.

Here is the box: 

And here are the cards:

Supplies used:  Glimmer Mist, Gina K. Designs Ivory Pure Luxury CS, Sentiment from Create with TLC, Image by Stampland Chicago, Spellbinder's Fancy Tags, Kaiser Craft Pearls, Spellbinder Oval and Scalloped Oval Dies, Offray Ribbon, Dimensional Squares, Martha Stewart Border Punch, Marvy Circle Punch, Ranger Black Embossing Powder Ultra Fine. Black Bazzill Basics CS.

So very sorry about the blurry photos.  I don't know what happened to make them so fuzzy.

Have a wonderful evening!

I'll be back very soon with something special.  I can't wait to spill the beans!

Hugs and blessings,

Patti J.

Food for thought: If someone gave you a nickname that was descriptive of your character, would you be proud of it?

Glimmer Mist...what fun!

Hello!

Today's card is one that I made a few weeks ago for a swap over at Technique Junkies.

I had to wait to post it until all the swap cards were traded out.

The pumpkin is an Inkadinkado image. The sentiment is Hero Arts. The background was made by taking a piece of lace, laying it over the cardstock, and spraying Glimmer Mist over it.

Glimmer Misting was a lot of fun - if you haven't tried it, you should!

I am entering this card here:

A Crafty Little Place: Autumn Daze

Craftalicious Challenges: Harvest Festival/Autumn

Stamp Something: Fall Colors

My Time to Craft: Looks Like Autumn

Incy Wincy Designs: Anything Goes

One Stitch at a Time Challenges: Anything Goes

For Fun Challenges: Fall

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

Patti J.

Christmas Cards

Yesterday, my DF Shirley and I road tripped to Chesterfield Plaza, where we each created four lovely Christmas Cards at Archiver's. After crafting, we split a wonderful salad and a wonderful pasta at California Pizza Kitchen, and headed down the highway to Hobby Lobby...

Here are my cards, along with a short description of what we liked about each.

This first card is on a pretty gold cardstock. It's not a shiny gold, but more of a matte finish sparkly gold. We stamped the sentiment and image on Whte Arctic Snow Metallic CS with Versamark Frost, Sprinkled with Gold Zing EP, and then heat embossed. Next was to take a glue pen, and in small sections, we colored the dove and sprinkled a fine fairy dust glitter on it. The cards that we made at Archiver's actually had a small red poinsettia where the bow is on my card, but my poinsettia met with an unfortunate glue accident, and stayed on the scrap paper at Archiver's!!!

We especially liked the White Arctic Snow Metallic CS on this one!!!

All righty...Card number two (shown above), was again, made on the beautiful white CS. The Red CS was another pretty metallic paper. It is very self explanatory. What we oohed and aahed over on this card was the use of silver AND gold embossing powders! Now we didn't WE ever think of that???

Christmas Memories has some stamping on the green base with Versamark, and again features the double embossing. The red discs are actually just red CS circles, but the photo makes them look like really cool buttons! lol!

Card Number Four (shown above), was made using all of the same supplies and gold embossing. The fun part of this card was using green Glimmer Mist on the tree. Again, why didn't we think of this??? Did you know that you can spray a little glimmer mist into a plastic cup or something and PAINT with it? Yup! And to change from the Green mist to the Red mist (shown on the pot at the base of the tree), all you need do is swish your brush in another cup of water, dab it on a paper towel, and voila! Color change!

The cards were very quickly made, the class was reasonably priced, and we came out with a couple of very cute and easy ideas.

Since they ALL include embossing, I am going to enter them at Crafty Creations challenge this week!

It was a good day!

Happy Saturday everyone!

Big hugs to all...